The Feed-in Tariffs (Amendment) Order 2017

New Schedule 2A (greenhouse gas criteria)

11.  After Schedule 2 (FIT applications data), insert—

Articles 38D and 38J

“SCHEDULE 2A Greenhouse gas criteria

PART 1 Greenhouse gas criteria

The greenhouse gas criteria

1.   The biogas used to generate electricity at a relevant installation meets the greenhouse gas criteria if the greenhouse gas emissions from each consignment of biomass used to make the biogas are equal to, or less than, the relevant target.

Calculating the greenhouse gas emissions

2.   For the purposes of paragraph 1, and subject to paragraphs 3 and 4, the greenhouse gas emissions from the use of biomass to make the biogas are to be calculated using the actual value method or the default value method.

3.   The default value method must not be used to calculate greenhouse gas emissions from the use of biomass unless—

(a) the biomass was used in a generating station with a total installed capacity of less than 1 megawatt;

(b) the biomass is described in the first column of the table in Part 2; and

(c) in relation to biomass, the result of the calculation in paragraph 7 of Part C of Annex 5 to the Renewables Directive is equal to, or less than, zero.

4.   For the purposes of paragraph 3(c), paragraph 7 of Part C of Annex 5 to the Renewables Directive is to be read as if—

(a) for each reference to “biofuel” there was substituted “biomass”; and

(b) the words “or bioliquid” were omitted in each place in which those words occur.

Interpretation

5.   In this Schedule—

“actual value method” means the calculation method provided for in paragraphs 6 and 7 of Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the RO Order and all references to “the month” in paragraph 7 are to be read as references to “the quarterly reporting period”;

“default value method” means the calculation method provided for in paragraphs 8 and 9 of Part 3 of Schedule 2 to the RO Order and the reference in paragraph 9 of that Part to “the table in Part 4” is to be read as a reference to the table in Part 2 of this Schedule;

“relevant target” means—

(a)

in relation to biogas used to generate electricity before 1st April 2020, 66.7 grams per megajoule of electricity;

(b)

in relation to biogas used to generate electricity on or after 1st April 2020 and before 1st April 2025, 55.6 grams per megajoule of electricity; and

(c)

in relation to biogas used to generate electricity on or after 1st April 2025, 50 grams per megajoule of electricity;

“the Renewables Directive” means Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources(1);

“the RO Order” means the Renewables Obligation Order 2015(2).

PART 2 Default greenhouse gas emissions from the production of biomass

Biomass	Default greenhouse gas emissions from the production of biomass (in grams)
Bagasse briquettes where the process to produce the briquettes was fuelled by wood	17
Bagasse bales	20
Palm kernel	27
Rice husk briquettes	28
Biogas produced from wheat, where the whole plant was used to produce the biogas	21
Wheat straw	2
Biogas produced from straw	21
Biogas produced from organic maize, where the whole plant was used to produce the biogas	19”

(1)

OJ No L 140, 5.6.2009, p. 16-62.

(2)

S.I. 2015/1947 to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.